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Interview with Amelia Catherine (Galley) Menard, taken by her granddaughter, Sarah Martino, a student at Worcester State College. Amelia lived in Worcester her whole life, growing up in the Irish and Italian neighborhood of St. Anne's Hill. Her…

A sewing class at Worcester Normal School (now Worcester State College) in this undated photograph from the 1890s.

Posture was very important for the prospective teacher. The entire school marches with blocks of wood on their head in this 1892 photograph of students at the State Normal School (now Worcester State College). The contributor remarks, "In today’s…

Many girls in a microscopy science class looking through old microscopes in the late 1890's or early 1900s. An undated photo from the collection of the Worcester State College Archives.

Sorting through a box of dusty photographs made up of graduating classes from Worcester State going back to the class of 1890, seemed unexciting. I feared I might not find a picture I made a connection with. Many have been reframed on thick…

Sixteen students pose in uniform with their gymnasium equipment in this May 1897 image from Worcester State College.

Built in 1892, the Frances Perkins home is a long-term transitional housing program for homeless women and their children. Perkins House provides shelter and supportive services to an average of eight to ten families at a time. It was the home of the…

The Worcester "Home for Aged Women" celebrated the 1916 New Year with a new addition. The new "model infirmary" is part of the home but separated for those who need hospital treatment. The Home for Aged Women was a success for more than 42 years and…